More pain

Ah, but, this time it was 'self inflicted' :-)
On Saturday Pads visited 'Boulders' - the indoor rock-climbing arena. LATCH had organised a brain tumour support group trip there and Pads had excelled himself, getting to the top of at least three rock-faces!
Of course, his body had mostly forgotten it had muscles all over the place, but every one of these are now complaining bitterly so he seems more of a 'crock' than ever!

Many thanks to those of you who have generously sponsored our little jaunt in May - it's very encouraging! I'll leave the justgiving items on the left-hand side of this blog where you can see an up to date total of monies raised.

On another front, he was delighted to get his second 'Blue Peter' Badge, this time it was for his entry into the Queen's Diamond Jubilee emblem competition. Only 100 in each of the three age categories achieved this out of over 35000 entries! His orange badge was accompanied by a Blue Peter Annual and a really nice letter from the team...

Moving on slowly

Nice easy day for Pads again today. He did homework, listened to an audio-book, watched a bit of, 'The Lavendar Hill Mob', and then went for a visit to McDonalds for 2/3 of a cheese-burger. His eating is picking up slowly, it's more varied and doesnt have to be strongly flavoured: some rice-crispies, 1/3 peice of toast, then a few cheesy pasta quills at dinner time.
He's been keeping himself occupied by taking on small projects: writing the placenames with caligraphy for the wedding reception next week, designing an emblem for the Queen's Jubilee (having snatched at a bit of Blue Peter on a rare visit to hospital), and today he was designing a Christmas card.